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396 points smartmic | 2 comments | 26 Jun 25 19:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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nick238 ◴[27 Jun 25 04:11 UTC] No.44393641[source]▶
In non-phoenitic languages, i.e. English, many of these methods are painful, especially "Last is First". See "I", but then it's "In", so you need to mentally backtrack some understanding. See "t", but then it's "that", so if you're subvocalizing to read, you need to reform the phoneme because 't' is a different phoneme from 'th'.
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1. dxdm ◴[27 Jun 25 06:27 UTC] No.44394190[source]▶
Isn't reading more like pattern recognition than parsing letter-for-letter? It seems to work like that for me. There's also the somewhat famous text where each word's letters are jumbled and people can still read it fluently. Maybe that's not the case for everyone, though, and people have different ways of making sense of written text.

Edit: Quick search turned up this article about the jumbled-word phenomenon, containing the example text at the top: https://observer.com/2017/03/chunking-typoglycemia-brain-con...

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2. speerer ◴[27 Jun 25 06:37 UTC] No.44394235[source]▶
I once attended a short workshop where the person presenting encouraged us to switch between two modes of reading away from sub-vocalizing and into pattern recognition. The result was much faster reading without loss of understanding.

He didn't use those terms but adopting them from this thread - I learned that day that these really are two distinct modes.